Yinkanie, South Australia

Yinkanie is a locality, formerly a small settlement established at the terminus of the Moorook railway line, in the Murraylands region of South Australia near the River Murray.

[note 1] The railway line opened in 1925 and closed in 1971; it was never extended to the river.

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Government town plan of Yinkanie, 1927. The plan provided for 45 house blocks, a school, recreation ground and 4 government services sites. A post office and primary school were the sole buildings erected outside the railway station boundary, but were dismantled when demand – small though it had been – declined.